Safety-pin



(No Model.)

W. F. HYATT.

SAFETY PIN.

No. 335,284. Patented Feb. 2, 1886.

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\VILLIAM F. HYATT, OF BROOKLYN, NE\V YORK.

SAFETY-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,284, dated February 2, 1886.

Application filed August 6, 1885. Serial No. 173,686. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM F. HYATT, of Brooklyn, in Kings county, and the State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Safety-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

I will describe safety-pins embodying my improvement, and then point out the various features of the improvement in a claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional side view of a safety-pin embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of this safety-pin, taken at the plane of the dotted line 00 00, Fig. 1.. Fig. 3 is a sectional side view of a safety-pin embodying my improvement in modified form. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the same, taken through the shield. Fig. 5 is a sectional side view of a safety-pin embodying my improvement in another modified form. Fig. 6 is a sectional side view of a safetypin embodying my improvement in another modified form; and Fig. 7 is a sectional side view of a safety-pin embodying my improvement in another modified form.

Similar letters of reference designate correwhich has at the junction of the two limbs a bend or coil, of, forming a spring, whereby the limbs are sprung apart when not pre vented. The end of the unsharpened limb of the pin is bent over a short distance toward the pointed or sharpened limb and then back toward itself, thereby forming a guide, a whereby the pointed or sharpened limb of the pin will be directed into the shield when ma nipulated properly.

The shield B, as shown, is made of sheet metal, and of such shape that one portion, 1), will extend over the end portion of the unsharpened limb of the pin, and that another portion, 1), will extend over into a position to receive the pointed or sharpened limb of the pin.

slightly, so as to fit into the space between the main portion of the unsharpened limb of the pin, the portion thereof which is bent The portion 1) of the shield is pinchedover toward the pointed or sharpened limb, and the portion that extends back toward the main portion of the unsharpened .limb of the pin and constitutes the guide a The portion b of the shield is considerably wider internally than the diameter of the pin, and the portion of the pin that forms the guide a extends within it; hence this guide can and will direct the pointed or sharpened limb of the pin directly into the shield.

In the safety-pin shown in Figs. 3 and 4 I have shown a Ushaped shield. The edges of that portion of the shield which fit upon the unsharpened limb of the pin A are bent to ward each other to secure the shield thereto.

The safety-pin shown in Fig. 5 is in all features like the one shown in Figs. 1 and 2, except that the guide a is longitudinally curved instead of straight.

In the safety-pin shown in Fig. 6 the end of the unsharpened limb of the pin is bent around away from the main portion, then parallel with the main portion, and finally back abruptly toward the main portion.

In the safety-pin shown in Fig. 7 the end of the unsharpened limb of the pin is coiled around upon itself, so as to form a guide.

In all the examples of my improvement the guide extends into the part of the shield that receives the pointed or sharpened limb of the pin.

The shields may all be secured in place by pinching them onto the pin or by solder.

Instead of employing the shapes of shield shown in the several safety-pins, I may use a U-shaped shield in any of these safety-pins.

\Vhen I pinch ashield to secure it in place, I do not pinch the metal of which it is made onto the pin, but pinch or bend it around the pin without applying pressure by a tool acting opposite the pin.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a safety-pin, the combination of a shield and a pin having a sharpened or pointed limb and an unsharpened limb bent at the end over away from the main portion and then back toward the main portion to form a guide, substantially as specified.

\VM. F. HYATT.

Vitnesses:

DANIEL H. DRISCOLL, EDXVARD T. Rocrrn. 

